BSO activist Zakaria Baloch’s tortured and riddled with bullets body found in Kalat

Occupied Balochistan: Yet another bullet riddled dead body of Baloch missing person was recovered from Soorab area of Kalat district in Balochistan.

Jan 16: Shaheed Mir Dost Muhammad

ANALYSIS: Lest we forget

by Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Zakir Majeed, Abdul Hamid Jamal, Mehboob Wadhela, Faiz Mohammad Marri and hundreds of other Baloch — it is impossible to name all — are missing. The unrestrained impunity with which they are disappeared, tortured and then thrown along highways just shows the epoch that the perpetrators suppose they live in

Qambar Chakar’s story begins on July 10, 2008 when he, Khurshid Baloch and Qayyum Baloch, then studying in Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences (BUITMS), began a hunger strike unto death to protest the discriminatory admission policy. Based on open merit for the entire Balochistan, it meant that students from backwaters could not even hope to enter BUITMS. Qambar and his protesting companions wanted the open merit to be devolved to district level to afford equal opportunities to all areas.